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May 2025
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Episode 1022: Crimes of the Costa Blanca...

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A shooting on the Costa Blanca near where Belfast man John George was last seen alive and where John Gilligan was nabbed in a drugs lab.

As a 21-year-old fights for his life, two men are arrested in the latest incident near popular Orihuela near Alicante.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about gun crime and a police crackdown in a tourism hotspot.


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